Memories Breathe and Every Monument Deflates, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, ca, 2022
Our project, Memories Breathe and Every Monument Deflates, examines the mechanisms of history-making: framing devices that disseminate and structure stories of place, cities, and value systems, but are often hidden in plain sight, receding into the background in service of the ideologies they enact. We intervene in these tools–including postcards and photographs, statuary plinths, and cartographic processes–to bring them to the fore, invite questions, and make apparent the ways the systems of knowledge they structure undergird our local and national discourses around memory and power, regardless of whether they are physically present in the current landscape. Projects in this new body of work include (Inflating Agitation) and Collected Landscapes and were supported by Kala Art Institute and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nate Watson) was honored to have received the 2021-22 Print Public fellowship from Kala Art Institute and the opportunity to exhibit the project alongside work from the other Print Public fellows: Christine Wong-Yap, Emma Logan & Cristine Blanco, and Lara Kaur.
